Job

Posted December 01, 2017

Technical Program Manager

Location: Vancouver

Job ID: 1374

Employment Type: Permanent

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Are you a Technical Program Manager who is driven, accountable, and loves to work on leading edge technology? Do you want to build pioneering products that are used by tens of thousands of users globally to solve real world business problems? Our Client is the leader in their industry providing solutions for the global financial sector. We love this company because they have been recognized with numerous awards including Canada’s Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures (2013, 2016), is rapidly growing, and is located in a beautiful office in Gastown.

Our client has asked for our help in looking for a Technical Program Manager for a permanent position to join a focused, agile product team to tackle interesting problems to do with scalability and high availability in big data environments. Challenge yourself with delivering products to some of the worlds largest and most influential firms.

Here's what you'll be doing on a daily basis:

Own the up and down responsibility for the delivery of their component/feature

Create work estimates, track progress, and report status in the form of burn up/down charts

Support product management, marketing, sales, professional services, training, and technical support throughout the release process with training, documentation, announcements, and other release activities

Understand the design, business logic, and technical architecture of their platform components and how those components interact with the rest of the platform

Serve as primary product expert (functional, not technical) for the components for which you are responsible

Here is the type of person we are looking for:

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

3-5 years of experience as a technical program/product manager

Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies

Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals